Scattergories

We had this game called Scattergories we had never played.  So Barb got it out and Julia read us the rules.  It involved rolling a dice with 26 sides. Each side had a letter of the alphabet on it.  Then there was a list of subjects and each of us was supposed to try to write down three things in each of the categories that start with the letter.  It was hard to think of things because your mind would get stuck on something and you couldn't think of anything else.  Also you had to have original things.  If someone else had your word, it didn't count.  So it was a funny game.  We would roll the dice and then sit quietly for a few minutes thinking and then start reading off our words.  We would scream at each other if someone had the same word as us and we would scream at each other if someone thought of an original word that was so obvious we should have thought of it ourselves.